§ 519. — Agricultural lands included in tracts acquired; sale for homesteads.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC519]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 2--NATIONAL FORESTS
SUBCHAPTER I--ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
Sec. 519. Agricultural lands included in tracts acquired; sale
for homesteads
Inasmuch as small areas of land chiefly valuable for agriculture may
of necessity or by inadvertence be included in tracts acquired under
this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion, and he is
authorized, upon application or otherwise, to examine and ascertain the
location and extent of such areas as in his opinion may be occupied for
agricultural purposes without injury to the forests or to stream flow
and which are not needed for public purposes, and may list and describe
the same by metes and bounds, or otherwise, and offer them for sale as
homesteads at their true value, to be fixed by him, to actual settlers,
in tracts not exceeding eighty acres, in area, under such rules and
regulations as he may prescribe; and in case of such sale the
jurisdiction over the lands sold shall, ipso facto, revert to the State
in which the lands sold lie. And no right, title, interest, or claim in
or to any lands acquired under this Act, or the waters thereon, or the
products, resources, or use thereof after such lands shall have been so
acquired, shall be initiated or perfected, except as in this section
provided.
(Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, Sec. 10, 36 Stat. 962; Pub. L. 86-509,
Sec. 1(k), June 11, 1960, 74 Stat. 205.)
References in Text
This Act, referred to in text, means act Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, 36
Stat. 961, as amended, popularly known as the Weeks Law, which is
classified to sections 480, 500, 513 to 519, 521, 552, and 563 of this
title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short
Title note set out under section 552 of this title and Tables.
Codification
``Such rules and regulations as he may prescribe'' was substituted
for ``such joint rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture
and the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe'' in view of the
transfer of functions under this section to the Secretary of Agriculture
from the Secretary of the Interior by section 1(k) of Pub. L. 86-509,
set out as a note under section 2201 of Title 7, Agriculture.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 521 of this title.
